March 2010 :: Cover Story

Local Nurse Waits for Transplant

Published Thursday Mar 4, 2010 by admin

Ellsworth ME – Jan Watson, a registered nurse at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth, is accustomed to caring for others.  She now finds herself waiting for a liver transplant due to Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) – a rare inherited disorder characterized by malformations of various blood vessels, usually resulting in excessive bleeding.
Jan first noticed [...]

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